June 26, 2018: 13 of the Most Insidiously Evil Organizations!

An off-shoot of Hydra, they’re a terrorist organization run by science-minded nerds unfettered by things like morals, ethics, and laws.

How Low Can They Go?

Their distinct yellow uniforms ensures they are constantly being mistaken for rogue beekeepers. Also, in addition to creating the reality-altering cosmic cube, they also created M.O.D.O.K., a living computer with a giant head and tiny baby feet.

Shocking Twist!

Big Head Baby Feet? He’s their leader now.

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Cobra

What’s Their Deal?

World domination and international arms dealing under the direction of the aptly named Cobra Commander.

How Low Can They Go?

Released ultrasonic waves from their underwater base in the Gulf of Mexico, devastating the surrounding marine life. Also, once held a telethon (the equally aptly named Cobrathon) to raise money from fellow criminals so they could target and destroy law enforcement computers.

Shocking Twist!

Cobra Commander kills his own son, Billy, with a poison dart, then hoists his corpse up a flagpole for the Joes to find.

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The Hand

What’s Their Deal?

Black magic-wielding ninja operatives who serve a demon called the Beast.

How Low Can They Go?

Stole Elektra’s corpse in an attempt to resurrect her and turn her to their cause.

Shocking Twist!

Daredevil accepts their offer and becomes their leader.

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H.A.M.M.E.R.

What’s Their Deal?

Created by noted philanthropist Norman Osborn as a substitute for S.H.I.E.L.D. during the post-Skrull Invasion, this government-sanctioned organization abused its authority, using the superpowered Dark Avengers as muscle.

How Low Can They Go?

Lead an unsanctioned attack on Asgard after framing Volstagg for a civilian massacre engineered by Osborn himself.

Shocking Twist!

Osborn has Bullseye kill Sentry’s wife because he considers her a source of weakness. Bullseye accomplishes this task by choking her and then tossing her out of a helicopter.

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H.I.V.E.

What’s Their Deal?

The Hierarchy of International Vengeance and Extermination. That about sums it up.

How Low Can They Go?

The organization’s leader, HIVE Master, was murdered by his wife, HIVE Mistress, who took over and then, when facing defeat at the hands of The Teen Titans, killed herself and a bunch of scientists in their undersea headquarters. What a sore loser.

Shocking Twist!

Deathstroke, under contract to H.I.V.E., uses Terra to infiltrate The Teen Titans!

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Hydra

What’s Their Deal?

They’re a terrorist organization with roots in the Axis Powers of World War II.

Hail, HYDRA! Immortal HYDRA! We shall never be destroyed! Cut off a limb, and two more shall take its place! We serve none but the Master—as the world shall soon serve us! Hail HYDRA! – Hydra oath

How Low Can They Go?

Killed Wolverine, resurrected him with the help of The Hand, then sicced him on his former friends.

Shocking Twist!

One of its longtime leaders, Madame Hydra, was really…a sleeper agent working for Hydra’s ancient enemy Leviathan! Another one of its other leaders, Kraken, was really…Nick Fury’s younger angrier bother Jake! Also, a number of its members were…skrulls! And one of its most infamous deep undercover agents was none other than…Captain America! But then he wasn’t.

Leader Bruno Manheim punished those who refuse to join Intergang by eating them.

Shocking Twist!

Boss Moxie has his neck snapped by Superboy-Prime. Yep, that was him.

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League of Assassins

What’s Their Deal?

Aka The Society of Assassins, aka The League of Shadows, aka The Society of Shadows. An international cult-like guild of trained killers led by Ra’s al Ghul.

How Low Can They Go?

Wiped out an entire pod of sperm whales in order to harvest their wombs so that Ra’s al Ghul could use them to grow a cadre of genetically-altered assassins.

Shocking Twist!

Batgirl is killed by the fearsome Mad Dog, then resurrected in a Lazarus Pit by Lady Shiva.

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LEXCORP

What’s Their Deal?

With its headquarters in beautiful LexCorp Tower located in bustling Metropolis, this mega-corp is owned and operated by Lex Luthor. Its front as a legitimate ruthless business operation belies its true nature as a ruthless criminal operation.

Company CEO and grandstanding business magnate Lex Luthor becomes President of the United States – only to be forced out for abuse of power after three years in office. He goes bankrupt, and see LexCorp’s assets sold to the Wayne Foundation.

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OSCORP

What’s Their Deal?

Formerly known as Osborn Industries, it is a megacorporation, specializing in defense weaponry, under the direction of CEO Norman Osborn.

How Low Can They Go?

Norman gained control of the company, and the goblin formula, by ensuring his business partner, Mendel Stromm, was locked up for embezzlement. Yes, he was technically guilty but, in all fairness, his strength was chemicals and robots, not accounting.

Shocking Twist!

Allan Chemicals merged with Oscorp, giving rise to the Alchemax Corporation. Its CEO, Liz Parker, hires a man named Mason Banks who, it turns out, is actually Norman Osborn in disguise. It turns out he has secretly orchestrated the takeover.

Arranged the deaths of Tony Stark’s parents, Howard and Maria Stark. Also, after microwave radiation from their satellite Star Well 1 killed over 200 inhabitants of Allantown, Iowa, Roxxon covered their asses by passing the incident off as an Anthrax scare – then hosted a celebrity golf tournament for the town’s survivors.

Shocking Twist!

Jonas Hale, Executive VP and Head of Research, is named after the actor who played the Skipper on Gilligan’s island!

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Sinestro Corps

What’s Their Deal?

They’re the anti-Green Lantern Corps, made up of Qwardian Yellow Power ring-wielding members committed to the propagation of fear.

How Low Can They Go?

The Corps’ surprise assault on Earth and their massacre of a multitude of Green Lanterns evidenced, not by witnessing the killings, but the sight of innumerable Lantern rings flying through space in search of new and worthy bearers.

Shocking Twist!

Sinestros’ ringer revealed at the end of Sinestro Corps War Special #1 = none other than the Anti-Monitor.

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I’m enjoying the virtual “Dark Matter”. I finally caught up and you had me on the edge of my seat, literally. Now, I have to find out about Five and her sister…

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26 Jun 2018 5:38 pm

Tammy Dixon

Oh, forgot to add that I downloaded five books for the cruise (thinking that was too much). I finished all of them! Two of them were your recommendations (R. J. Baker-Wounded Kingdom series) and they were excellent! Another book was “The President is Missing” and I enjoyed that one too.

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26 Jun 2018 5:44 pm

Barry

Thanks Joe. While waiting for my item to come up for discussion, I was reading this during a meeting here at work (I work for an aerospace company supporting NASA ISS). I got to your last input, lost in the hilariousness of your SyFy post, I accidently let out a loud laugh, interrupting our planning meeting. Of course i had to explain myself. After my rant on SyFy and what theyve done to the genre we love so much was over…all of the other system and software engineers in the room were in agreement that SyFy sucks. By the way, you have several fans in my group!

“After my rant on SyFy and what theyve done to the genre we love so much was over…all of the other system and software engineers in the room were in agreement that SyFy sucks. By the way, you have several fans in my group!”

Awww, thanks, Barry. And please pass along my apologies to the team for disrupting your meeting.

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26 Jun 2018 7:35 pm

Barry

No apology necessary, it was a welcomed and needed break!

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27 Jun 2018 12:06 am

Montrealer

Mr M

AIUI the reason why Killjoys was kept on the SyFy schedule was that the show’s lead actress is in upcoming Ant-Man and the Wasp movie. More or less free PR for SyFy with the might of the Mouse.

Oh. Please don’t insult the monkey. At least the simian pick is random. While the SyFy programmer have 2 hats to pick from. Shows Comcast like.and dislike. Comcast is reason why there is reality shows on SyFy to begin with, they ran out of bandwidth on their other cable channels.
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Finally where is the “A” organization run by the Seattle gnome (Bezos) not on your list of evil doers?

What’s Their Deal? Prime

How Low Can They Go? Low enough to drive other competitors out of business.

Shocking Twist! There are brick & mortar A stores including Whole Foods.

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26 Jun 2018 9:44 pm

rissreader

lol. You surprised me.

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26 Jun 2018 11:17 pm

Duptiang

Well you don’t have to worry about anyone, that least a human form, from SciFi from reading Barry’s comments. That would take someone with cognitive abilities. At least those who consider the days first use of paper a recallable matter.

you forgot the part where they killed SG:U because of low ratings, after moving it to tuesday so friday could be wrestling. …and then a while later moving other shows from tuesday back to friday and watching their ratings go right back up.

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27 Jun 2018 12:44 am

Ponytail

“That guy making the programming decisions? He’s really just a monkey picking random chits out of a top hat.”

My only disappointment in your post was the exclusion of “The Evil League of Evil.” Shocking Twist: Bad Horse… is an actual horse.

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27 Jun 2018 1:35 am

Nathan Dionne

I knew from the start SyFy would make this list, but I wasn’t sure if you would put them at number one or not. Then I realized, of course they have to be number one. All the others are fictional! Just imagine if they had the moral and legal freedom those comic book organizations have. We would all be doomed.

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27 Jun 2018 2:18 am

Nathan Dionne

Also, I notice these are all from Marvel and DC with the exception of Cobra. I feel like you could have pulled from a few other sources. Sure The Empire (from Star Wars) could have made this list. Probably one or two others.

And they randomly cancelled Face Off with no announcement of any kind. Just an off hand comment that the final season was debuting.

It’s the one and only “reality” series that I actually enjoyed, because the make-ups are great as story inspirations when I’m writing.

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27 Jun 2018 5:45 pm

Sylvia

Excellent recap! Still boycotting the evil channel – don’t even watch when they toss out an oldie/goodie to trick us to watch.

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27 Jun 2018 12:40 pm

shinyhula

So many dastardly deeds and yet Syfy still manages the deep knee bends required to win the World’s Most Evil Limbo Contest. I’m still mad that they dumped the Battlestar games website, costing me my precious Viper that I spent months customizing.